Confidential work
Plenty of client work is covered by an agreement that makes uploading the audio a problem — sometimes a contractual one. The usual answer is to take no notes at all and hope you remember. Wrengle is the other answer: record it, transcribe it, and, with a local model, keep every part of it on the machine in front of you.
Not a policy promise about how carefully a server treats your data. A description of data that never reaches a server.
Wrengle captures audio and writes it to a folder you chose. No Wrengle server holds a copy and no account receives it. If you then transcribe through a cloud provider, that provider receives the audio while it is processing — choosing a local model keeps it on the machine.
Choose a model that runs on your own machine and the audio is never sent anywhere. A cloud provider needs three things before any meeting audio leaves: the provider selected in settings, cloud meeting transcription switched on, and a stored key for it.
Every note is an ordinary file in your folder. You can encrypt the folder, keep it on an encrypted volume, or hand it to a client without exporting anything.
Remove the file and Wrengle's own copy is gone — no hosted copy, no retention window, and no support ticket needed to make it true. If that meeting's audio went to a cloud provider for transcription, its logging, retention, and billing terms apply to what it received, and deleting your local file does not reach that.
Wrengle is not legal advice and cannot tell you what your agreement permits. Recording a conversation may require consent from everyone in it, and that is your call to make, not the software's. Cloud meeting transcription is a separate opt-in, so meeting audio stays on your machine until you turn it on — that is different from dictation elsewhere in the app, which follows Automatic routing and can resolve to a cloud provider whenever a speech key is connected. Wrengle runs on macOS 13 or later and nothing else, so if your client work happens on Windows this is not yet the tool for you.
None of this requires an account, either. Wrengle is free while in beta, and downloading it or recording a confidential meeting never asks you to sign up. If you later choose to create an optional account for identity and profile, it uses only email or Google — it plays no part in where your recordings, transcripts, or notes are kept.
For the mechanics behind that routing choice, see how transcription decides between your machine and a cloud provider. Once the meeting is recorded, see where the resulting notes actually live.
Free while in beta, and nothing to sign up for. Download it, point it at a folder, and record a meeting — you will know within one call whether it is for you.